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Informationen zum Autor Mark Haskell Smith is the author of five novels, including Raw: A Love Story and Salty (which was adapted into a major motion picture called Gun Shy ), as well as the nonfiction books Naked at Lunch and Heart of Dankness . His work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Review of Books, and Vulture . He lives in Los Angeles. Klappentext Biting satire and criminal mischief abound in Mark Haskell Smith's new novel that follows a Wall Street trader who disappears-with millions in stolen cash-and the madcap team of investigators on his trail in the Cayman Islands in this hot, hilarious case of offshore banking gone awry Leseprobe Bryan knew that eventually they would get around to unlocking his computer and going through his accounts. It would take them a couple of days, more or less, and then they’d know he’d ripped them off. If his plan succeeded, he’d leave this re-sort and have a few days to create a false trail. Then he could collect his money and disappear. Bryan thought he’d been smart about it, thought he’d covered his tracks, but worried that he might have made a mistake, might have underestimated Seo-yun or whatever tech person they were sure to put on his case. Maybe they’d figure it out sooner. For all he knew, they could be on their way to the Dominican Republic right now. He reflexively looked over his shoulder and then, seeing sunbathers rubbing lotion on their bodies, heaved a sigh. Who knew being a criminal was so stressful? He’d justified ripping off the company a hundred times in his mind. They never hesitated to exploit the weaknesses of others so why shouldn’t others exploit them right back? Just the thought of the little guy, Joe Q. Public or Jane Doe, in-vesting their life savings into a rigged game—a system that sanctioned corruption and insider trading, a money churning behemoth that spit out trades every nano-second for the banks—the unfairness of it all nagged at him, like a flea bite that wouldn’t go away. But then everyone knows that’s the way Wall Street works. Zusammenfassung Biting satire and criminal mischief abound in Mark Haskell Smith’s new novel that follows a Wall Street trader who disappears—with millions in stolen cash—and the madcap team of investigators on his trail in the Cayman Islands in this hot, hilarious case of offshore banking gone awry...
